CIA Spy John Kiriakou was 100% RIGHT about Pardon Corruptions

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The numbers. I can't remember them right now, but John did talk about there's already going to be a price and John was like, well, that's fucking shady, but whatever. And then basically they like quadrupled the price right there. It's like, fuck that. I'm not doing this. No, no, you take your pardon and shove it up your ass. So he did not get a pardon there, but it's very telling, by the way, that when you see all the people, Trump's pardoning, which may be actually, deep, can you just real quick ask for highlights of people, Trump is pardoned who were very shady. He probably shouldn't part. When you look at all the partens that Trump is doing throughout his presidency, and then you think about John Karyaku, who's now like, you know, a worldwide phenomenon, by the way, all the kids like him, you know, the fact that John has had so many prominent people publicly asked the president for years, by the way, for a pardon. And the fact that so many people write letters on behalf of John to get a pardon. I have a source that said that they get more letters at the White House for pardon for John Karyaku than anyone else that is up for pardon or asking for a pardon by a lot, like by a lot. So, you know, this is this is not a new thing. And yet he's never been able to get one. Because he's never paid a pardon broker or and we're going to talk about exactly that reporting a minute or gone in there and tried to get one through financial means if you will, you know, told you about the one time and he said, fuck that. Whereas all these other people, they're like, yeah, I want my pardon, let me pay for it. I just don't understand how that is not blatantly illegal. Like I don't know how there's not a codified law. That you can't pay lobbyists to go lobby for a pardon. Like that's that's insane. That's oh, yeah, remember this one, Juan Orlando Hernandez, former president of Honduras. So he was serving 45 years for conspiring to bring 400 tons of coke into the you. It's a little coke. It's a little coke. Johnny Dief, Trump, Trump tied the pardon to his endorsement of the candidate in Honduras is election lawmakers in both parties objected saying undercut the administration's own campaign against drug trafficking. This one was like right after Venezuela too. And like obviously we've named the cartels terrorist organizations. And so they lock up a foreign leader who was clearly running as like a cocaine kingpin in the Honduras. 400 days, that's a little bit just a tiny bit. That's not a Pablo pledge, good bar amount, Joey Dief, but it's it'll do. Right. And then you go pardon a guy like this. I agree with what both parties said. It completely undercuts your message. He also remember when he did the Binance founder. What's his name Zee or whatever Changping Zhao. He pleaded guilty to money laundering violations of Binance paid a $4.3 billion penalty. So the parting came a week after Don Jr. introduced a Zao lobbyist to Trump. So it did not even hiding it. The president's son introduced a lobbyist to Trump and he pardon him. And this is the one that Trump commented after he's like, yeah, I was actually totally unfamiliar with him when he did the pardon. Like he didn't even he really didn't even know who the guy was. And and what it is. You know, so he's done many of these. There's other guys who have been convicted of all kinds of fraud and shit for and I've seen numbers that are in the tens of millions and he just pardon them. And yet he won't pardon John Kiriaku. It's interesting. It's very, very interesting. I also do know that. And this is one thing I really respect about John. I know that a rather prominent person called John. This is a wild back. This is during Trump admin one, but it's a wild back. A rather prominent person called John and said, don't shoot the messenger. But I'm just telling you this. You're talking about a lot of shit online. There's a couple things that if you just don't talk about it. You're probably going to get your pardon. And to John's credit, I can verify he has not stopped talking about those things in any way. I just took the decibels and went and turned away the fuck up after that. And so he's got principles. But I've been burying the lead on the actual party brokers. Joe did has the video up. This was from the 60 minutes report where they interviewed two guys who couldn't possibly be more stereotypical standings for exactly what you think these people look like. Let's go ahead. How come you you quoted 300,000 to you know and 600,000 to boozee. I'll break this down. There's because he's building what we quote somebody. A big part of those factors is other criminal history. If somebody's got a rap sheet a mile long, obviously it's going to be much harder for us to make the case to receive a pardon much. Paul. Yeah. Nice dual flag of America and Israel playing the part. Go ahead. So that rap sheet continues after the fact. And so we look at the cases. We decide how difficult they're going to be. How much in the way of resources are going to require and how much time from a standpoint of opportunity cost of other clients. We're telling the Kavinos that part of the 300,000 dollars would go to buy tickets to fundraising events at Mar-a-Lago or Bedminster that the president attended. Not necessarily no. But you said it. No, what we said is there's expenses involved, including travel to events, which we may or may not otherwise. Tomato tomato bottom line is that there's expenses involved. But of course the lion sure of this is. We're paid and we make money. There's nothing wrong with that. We've got contributions as we said many times. And so there's really I don't understand the. Well, I guess the issue is, is it in some way paid a play? No, with no paid a part. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Payed nearly a million dollars for what? For our advocacy and our services and our strategy. A lot of this is our strategy. It sounds like an enormous amount of money. 300,000 dollars. I would. I would encourage you to look up the lobbying fees of our competitors and all the right. It's a whole ended study. Our top five competitors. This is the big. It's. Advocacy requires years of knowledge and training and working in government. All right. So let me. Let me. Let me walk you through this. He knows a guy who knows a guy. He gets a little fucking pass to go into the White House. He walks back there and says, Hey, how you doing? What do you think? Can we get this pardon done? Can we get it? Here's my list. Give me three out of 10. At least I could say I hit three out of 10. That's the advocacy. He's talking about like this isn't like that hard. Everyone has a sheet of crimes that they did or whatever. Some are going to be worse than others and you got to convince them of like, look, they community service. Look, he apologized for it or whatever. Look, feel bad for him because of X, Y or Z. Like a fucking eighth grader could probably do enough to be able to get the point across if you needed to. But these people are out here charging a million dollars. I love how Leslie Stoll said that by the way. She's like. Jesus Christ, you know, you're charging a million dollars to walk in there and ask for a pardon. And then when they get asked like, you know, how is this not paid to play? They're like, No, not murder. What murder? What murder? You know, they then literally use $5 words to explain $10 words to explain exactly how it's paid to play. It's like, it's not paid to play. It's playing to pay. That's it. You see what this is? It's just Jedi mind tricks, Joey. This is this is boozy, sir. He made the 2010 hit album incarcerated and we would love if you gave him a part. And why did you charge him double? Well, he's black. Well, that's that's how you know, that's what these guys are. They're like, it's a rapper. He's got stacks back there. And they're like, you double it up. They said you, you mentioned your mother's Jewish. Oh, no, no, she's not okay. Well, yeah, yeah, for, for double the fee. It's your lucky day. But like, also how much hubris do you have to have to be those two guys? And genuinely agreed to do this interview. Well, it kind of comes back to the whole reading the room thing. Yeah, like I just, I just think they're like, listen, who gives a fuck? People are gonna, they're gonna say what they gotta say. I gotta, I got that tea time tomorrow. That's all I care about, all right. So I'm gonna do 60 minutes on the way. Yeah, fuck it. Fuck it. Let's install, fuck these, fuck these disgusting scum that should be washing my car. They should be cleaning my fucking shoes, these pieces of shit. Oh, hi, nice to meet you, names, whatever. That's, that's how it is. That's it. And just the way they talk, too. Like, I, I don't know anyone. Like personally. Yeah. As a friend in any capacity who talks that way. That's not a real person talk. Yeah, that's just straight bullshits. It is, it is a corporate, lawyerist, fucking case street. Yep. Whatever that, what, I don't know what that accent is. Yeah. I'm unfamiliar with that. It's just reptile talk. Yeah, reptile talk. Without, you know, I'm joking, but like, that's just reptile talk. They could be reptiles. Yeah. You never know. You never know. Probably not. Yeah. Maybe that's like what they think the accent. You know, advocacy is so much training, so much years of experience. That's right. So much, it's just like hearing them talk like that. It's just like, hey, go fuck yourself. Yes. Yes, I, I could not agree more. One of, if not the most common DMs I get on Instagram are many of you asking me what my favorite books are. Well, today's your lucky day, because if you use the link in my description below to join my newsletter, I'm going to give you my top 10 book recommendations right now. Also, if you'd like to join my clipping community for a chance to make money producing content from the show, you can do so via the Discord link in my description below. And finally, you can join my Patreon for early uncensored releases of the full episodes via the Patreon link in my description below. As always, please take one second to hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. I really appreciate that. Also, the like button is a big help. And you can join my newsletter via the link in the description below. But what's really nice is that at least the administration is getting richer. So you know, Howard Letnix, can we Google that as well, Joey DeFarka? Sure. I'll get to our question in a second. Howard Letnix net worth has increased a lot in Trump term too. I just want to get the specific amount, right, so that I don't give any stolen or false valor. That's not ours. So Howard Letnix and his family's net worth has more than doubled to approximately $7.3 billion since he joined President Donald Trump's cabinet as Commerce Secretary. So Joey DeF, since January 2025, it is now October 2027 or 2026, effectively. Okay. I'm trying to skip a year right there. Oh my God. We're getting far. But that would mean that we are in less than two years. You have watched a guy make over $3.7 billion in that time span. He made 100% returns on his net worth. Nice. I want to know who his broker is. I would. In fact, if you are Howard Letnix broker, Joey DeF definitely would like to hire you. And I'm going to consider it for sure. Because again, that's what you do. When you take the Commerce Secretary role, you're doing commerce, which means you're doing biz. And you get to decide who wins. And then you also make sure you get to do the investments inside or trading along the way. Well, it's like playing the banker when you're playing monopoly, like I'm going to make sure everyone's on their pees and queues, but I might slip a couple 20s, a couple 50s out of the pile as I'm dealing and taking care of all the, you know, my constituents. I'm going to take my paste. That's it. You know, just a little big, just a top, just a little paste on the backend, which is, this is hilarious because again, that's why they're not reading the room. That's why none of these people are reading the fucking room. And this is the part I do think about a lot because it's not just the administration. Like we started the conversation from the last episode, just talking about like people in general, you know, in elite circles of billions of dollars to Kylie Jenner, whoever it may be, all these people going out of their way to show you their opulence and what they do and show you their corruption and the marriage between the corporate elite and the political elite and then, you know, the entertainment elite in some cases as well. It's like the obviousness of it is at an all time high with this presidential administration, but all these guys are doing this. And I keep hearing from some people about people getting second passports. You know, that's what we're talking about at the end of last episode with Jared Kushner. And people, you know, buy an island. We've talked about that with Jared Kushner specifically and some other people and some people who maybe know some things openly hoarding assets and hitting the red button on trying to increase their investments and squeeze out. That's what it feels like to me, Joy-Deeve, like they're squeezing out whatever last bit they can from the, you know, the toothpaste to get it on the toothbrush before something happens. And of course, and I don't love thinking like this, but when I see a pattern like this so blatantly happening over what's been a fairly long period of time right now over the past couple years, especially, you know, to pass ports by and land, sucking up money from everyone inside or trading just out in the open across the board, across political parties, across donor parties and all that. I do ask myself, what do they know? What do they know that you and I don't? Because I'd love to, I'd love to find out. And my head does go back to my conversation with Doug Rushcoff a little bit. I can't help that. Yeah. I think assignment to the other day now, kind of with just like the transition of the financial and industrial complex. Like it's not, it's not, it might not be that these people are like, oh yeah, America's about to disappear and never exist and fail, yada yada. It's more so like, hey, hey, this ain't going to be the center of the universe anymore. And we're just going to slowly start hedging our bets, making sure we're all ready to go because I don't know if it was him or another guess we had recently, but just, you know, we're not around these people either. Like the way like a king used to have to like walk through the town square and could get fucking tomatoes thrown at him. Like it's just so much harder like the disconnect between, you know, the people and the, you know, the ones we serve or what have you. 100%. But like, you know, none of these people, back in the day, they just get fucking ran through the streets and guillotined. Yeah. That's why they don't read the room now because it's like they're just so far removed. They don't have to worry. They're so far removed and people are controlled enough that they feel confident and comfortable to be able to do it with impunity. Yeah. We're talking about Kimberly Guilful. Well, even like the AI videos of, like, this is Xi Jinping dinner, like, and again, they could be bots. But like, I just saw it, like, there's just so many replies that are like the opposite of us. They're like, fuck, yeah, like this fucking admin, like, like, like, it's just, if you are, if these are real people, a lot of them aren't like, yeah, I pray to God, they're not because a lot of them are not straight to the glue factory. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm, it's, it's like, there's no, if you are sitting at home in your shitty house, that you're underwatering a mortgage at and you're looking at that going, this is fucking awesome. Back then, like, you get to be there with them when they would escort you off the premises. So fucking, you would be 10 miles from the premises. You'd be escorted off like yesterday's trash. Literally. If you tried to do that. Literally. Like, I mean, God help you if you're actually that person. But yeah, the, the bot activity across the spectrum, especially on X is absurd. And you remember the numbers when, remember when Elon was buying and he was trying to back out because the, he thought that the numbers shared on bots were actually way worse than what they told him it was already bad. I don't remember what they were, but it was like an insane, insane number. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I just think that if anyone thinks this is cool, you're a huge fucking dumbass and that's the nice way to put it, I love you. I agree. I do wonder what they're doing with this money though. Like rich people do some interesting things as we well know with money. Like the whole like put money through fine art and some of that stuff, like they find ways to make the most money and then use loopholes because they got a lot of resources to be able to figure it out that limit their taxes and increase their gains. The tale is always time. But I'd love to know with all this hoarding going on, when you see $600 million here, $2 billion there or whatever, where that's going, are they Gaza? No, I'm dead ass. I'm like that is not even a joke like this is the type of shit that like they're gonna go and start building Resorts and Gaza and you'll see the fucking Kushner's going back a huge development project. Yeah of shopping and luxury Hotels. Let's take it a second layer though, too. I want to know how much of it and in the immediate term They are moving completely out of something that has to do or is based upon US dollars Yeah, that's what I want to know because that would give you a big answer as to what they think But like Doug Rushkopf was talking about you know these billionaires talking about the event Yeah, the event so for people who didn't see that episode I think that was number 450 and who didn't hear me talk about it afterwards just as a refresher Doug This is a long-time tech futurist really really really funny guy to very eccentric very very smart and he was his Kind of claimed to fame was when he was young in the early 90s He basically predicted the idea of what the internet would become specifically like internet 2.0 and stuff like that So you know that got him a lot of notoriety and in a good way like in in that space It's being someone you talk to about these things to try to evaluate the trends and to his credit for about six seven years now He's been coming public about this meeting that he had in 2017 out west. He was paid to do a speaking engagement And so he goes out there and to his surprise when he walked into the room where he was gonna be doing it It was not a full crowd of people, but it was five billionaires and he recognized some of them, but they weren't these are not I'm not allowed to say Who one of them was that I did guess who it was off camera, but these are not like Elon Musk, Sam Altman stuff like that. These are very more nondiscreet billionaires and so what these guys Nondiscrep billionaires. I'm sorry. What these guys were saying is they they all had notebooks out and they were Nonchalantly matter of factly referring to this thing called the event and it was a foregone conclusion It was like, yo, is this gonna happen? It was it wasn't like that. It was it was like no, this is happening So we got to prepare and the event could have been anything like they were saying it could be some sort of, you know Disaster with the climate. It could be some sort of AI disaster It could be some sort of pandemic whatever, but something's happening. It's gonna happen in the next 15 20 years And we're building our bunkers because we want to be prepared when the population is, you know, just totally undercut Yeah, and you wonder Like when you see all this open hoarding Joey Deef, if I knew shit was coming and a lot of people who would criticize me weren't even gonna be around to criticize me if that happened I wouldn't give a fuck if they saw it either. Yeah, right? Yeah literally Like and that's a real doomer not nice thing to think about and I don't think that's happening But like I can't sit here and completely rule it out when I see all these patterns playing out at the same time Yeah, I don't know. I just I do have believed that these people just don't really care and that's why they operate the way they do They just they we've reached a point now of like no return like of like it's like full immunity And it's not even just Trump admin. It's it's everyone within this whole machine Yeah, look at all the pardons that Biden did on the way out totally out the door for all his people as well which Said a dangerous president. I said it when they were going after Trump For political law fair even during his first administration that was That was a hard red line for me because and I want to be careful how I say this I don't in a perfect world especially no one should be above the law or whatever But I could see that some of the things in that case that they were going after Trump on were bullshit right now You could go after a million things and no one's going after him which is interesting But I could see that it was political law fair and the minute that that happens you set precedent Which then makes the other side then say when the shoes on our foot we're going to do this step in And so then you know they went after Trump During in between the two administrations like crazy, which I think really helped put him in office like that's Yeah, that's what I wonder if it was just Now your cooking game go ahead by design could be I mean where we Stories are the that is the backbone of our fucking country and our in our world And they made they made a great story out of the whole thing and he was kicked to the ground He was got the mug shot got the mug shot got shot at got shot at an assassination attempt that I even thought about once in the Past like three months, you know like Yeah, it's the perfect story the perfect comeback you get all these people who treat them like it's their first uncle or their own And it's just it's perfect. It is they the perfect design To just roll in this fucking Tom foolery that goes unchecked and unscathed I think it's very reasonable deposit you got right there. Yeah for sure I think it more and more could be either way publicly like at what you look at it sets precedent Yeah, so now you see it going, you know, pendulum swinging Yeah, and they're gonna keep doing that every time Which means they're also going to accept the fact that part of business Is that, you know, you take carry your own soldiers on the way out the door. Yeah, you part in people and stuff Which then makes the bar for wanting to fuck things up on the way there a lot lower because you're like Well, we could just clean it up later. I'll get a pardon. Yeah, I just get a plan. I just sounds part of my whole family and shit Yeah, you know what I mean like that's you know now you got Hunter Biden doing like podcast tours everywhere. Yeah You know, if you don't think that's gonna be the same thing with this one With with the Trump admin. I mean, I got a fucking bridge to sell you. Yeah, that'll be fun. Yeah, it's just When I when I see them all like I agree with you deep that they they've passed the point of not giving a fuck I just want to know why I Don't I would love the simple answer to be it's just all hubris Which maybe it is maybe that is the simple answer and they just are genuinely demons who don't care Very possible and that seems to be where you're at Joey Dief I wonder if like the back 5 10% play though is Actually, you know probability is actually there's this some shit going on. Yeah, and we're gonna find out about it later when it's too late I think the answers in the middle of that Maybe I think it's like they don't give a shit, but they also know that like oh Havana that's gonna be you know like that's right Not Havana. Yeah, what what's happening with Havana? I haven't heard about that. I don't know I saw that we're going to be making some moves on Cuba though the other day Wait, but they've been saying that now for like a year. I'm not saying it's not gonna happen don't put anything past these Yeah, I mean it Nick Shirley hit boots on the ground and he got everyone ready to roll But now they haven't been doing nothing about it. That's right. So But Cuba and US will make a deal that's per Trump's That's what he's saying. Yeah, that's ruders yesterday too Oh, so he's he's looking for a dealio rather than a invasion Yeah, but we were we were doing rolling blackouts on them for a while with their power grid and stuff. I mean they've been getting it for sure they've We definitely have not let that just sit uh Well, Jared Kushner's getting a lot richer too, which Again, he was gonna be leaving political life. I think we said that 40 million times I just want to remind people once again he was going to be leaving Political life at the end of Trump administration one yet here we are failed negotiator and Lisa's getting wealthy along the way Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was increased his net worth by over 220 percent so he has More than tripled his net worth bad the biggest percentage increase among Forbes top 100 wealth top 400 wealthiest Americans His value has increased to 16.7 billion dollars since 2025 We need 300 for a movie Joey like that is just such horseshit. It's crazy He's on the top 400 list dude. What a legend. I can't think of Matt of of anything that he's done in business That has added significant value anywhere So his real estate investments like the famous one movies at 555 park avenue in New York was underwater is a disaster And he's done a couple things in jersey city bum. Sorry. You're not getting worth 16.7 billion in jersey city like what his what What is he built? What is he done That represents any value To people let alone a value of 16.7 billion dollars in his pocket Yeah, I feel that way about bunch of these people. I agree. I'm like, I don't even know what you do I think I think it point being I think he's just completely failed upward Which means the game is rigged for him, which is not news to any of us obviously clear But kind of interesting. It's also nice though that in the middle of the war our secretary of war is a great investor as well You see that yeah even Pete yeah, yeah hit that article real fast A lot of Pete. This is from swamp watch. They pointed this out from CMBC Pete Hague says broker attempted to make defense investments before a Ron war according to the financial time. I know this Biggest broker at banking giant, Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock, Jesus Christ. In February about making a multi-million dollar investment in the eye shares, defense industrials, active ETF, he's like, by all of them, we're going to war. The investment discussed by Hague says broker ultimately did not go ahead. That's nice. He pulled out, he, so he went into the stall with the hooker. He had not paid her yet, and then before his pants were all the way down, he said, you know what? I thought better this. I'm a moral man. Bit of God. I'm a man of God. That's right. The Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell dismissed the report on X calling it entirely false and fabricated. Well, let's get the details of the report and you can decide for yourself. A broker for U.S. defense secretary, P. Hague says, sought to make a large investment in major defense companies and lead up to the Iran War according to the Financial Times. The Pentagon has dismissed a report. Financial Times reported Tuesday that Hague says broker at banking giant Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock at February about making a multimillion dollar investment in eye shares defense industrials active ETF. The ETF, which has about $3.1 billion in assets, counts companies such as RTX formerly known as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northart Grumman amongst its largest holdings, BlackRock data showed. The defense industrials active ETF has lost 12.4% over the past month around the time the war in Iran started according to LSEG data. The Financial Times also said the investment discussed by Hague says broker ultimately did not go ahead because the fund was not yet available for Morgan Stanley. Oh, so it just wasn't available yet. Hit us up when it is and we'll do some extra new attacks. It is unclear whether the broker found another defense related investment. We have like, when they do the publicly available financials on these guys, you get their holdings from the past year. Do we get the, for like the Secretary of War, the timing of his trades? Like is there going to be a time where we can look at that? Obviously, this one he didn't pull the trigger on, but we'll be able to see specifically like, oh, he pulled, his broker pulled the trigger on X, Y and Z on February 25th or on March 24th. I'd love to know that for the cabinet role like that because people should be digging through that like crazy. I want to see it. I want to see it. I want to see it. I want to see it. Just looking for it. I want to see it. I want to see it. I want to see it. All right. According to CNBC, his 2025 annual financial disclosure released in September, 2026 reports at least 3.1 million in combined cash, retirement investments and Bitcoin for him and his wife. Government ethics filings report assets and trades in Y dollar ranges rather than exact amounts. There you go. So you get arranged. The filing shows a single bank account holding more than 1 million and Bitcoin holdings valued between 16,000 and 65,000 according to courts. The declosure documents are an extensive portfolio reshuffle in early 2025 stock sales. And then hexf unloaded shares of defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman alongside tech stocks like Apple and Amazon. These individual stock sales were filed by purchases of broad exchange. Oh, okay. I see what he did there. He was unloading the individual companies to say, okay, I got personal relationship with many of these. But I'll buy the ETF that just has all. We'll hedge our bets a little bit. Perfect. Yeah. That is, that is pretty perfect. But listen, I mean, he's prepping for the Holy war. That's what he's doing, you know. And this is, this is exactly what you want your secretary of work doing. You want him making sure you get social media contact content of him with a bunch of recruits or I guess in this case, people who are already in the military, given a speech in the bleachers, like it's fucking Rudy about the Holy war. Let's run it from secretary of work, hexf. It's actually our first stop in what down you see up on the screen right there, which we're calling send me to send me to send me to know your book of Isaiah book of Isaiah. First aid, assuming they're all, yeah, I said, I said, I've here sent me sent me and if you think about it across the 250 years of our country, I know you got 150 years of this great core here, over a hundred years of this core at 250 years in the country. There have been men, women who raised their right hand and they said send me send me to go fight the red coats, send me to go fight the communist, send me to go fight the Islamists. And you are saying send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation for the next 250 years. Okay, let's put it up. There is something so gross about injecting religion on a bunch of trainees, some of which probably don't subscribe to at least that religion. There's something so absurd about doing that. And then specifically about making sure you get the camera angles and cuts to be able to put it on social media and brag about it while we're in the middle of a very unnecessary war that's breaking every campaign promise that they have. You know, I just, again, like this is a different kind of like in your face, Joey Deef. It's a different, it's, it's a different chapter and verse intended of like let them eat cake. Yeah, I mean, that makes me want to throw off. Yeah. He's such a bum too. He is. He's like they hired the Fox News guy to run the military and we wonder why we have some issues. That's kind of interesting. Yeah, I mean, they just need, they just need some better optics on like some better cultural gets, you know, the youngsters aren't rocking with that. If you think you're going to get the youngsters with a fucking milk dud like that, you played yourself, well, played yourself. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's well said. But there, there was a story that dropped this week about Kimberly Gilfoil from the Wall Street Journal. And it's, it's very extensive. So before we, yeah, perfect, Deef. So before we get to the story, I'm going to give you a roundup of like one of the many details that was, that was in here. But Kimberly Gilfoil, if you don't remember, was Donald Trump Jr's fiance. And prior to that, she was on the five at Fox News. And prior to that, she was married, believe it or not, to California governor Gavin Newsom before he was governor. And at least publicly, she has opposite politics of him. That was always kind of interesting to me. But you know, she started getting romantically involved with Donald Trump Jr. during the first Trump administration and they were engaged. And in 2024, they were still engaged. She was speaking at the Republican National Convention when Trump was running again. And then very quietly, their engagement was called off. And she was, she was given what, what any good was going to be father-in-law would give the scoring lover of his son. She was given the ambassador to Greek ship. Oh, right. Yeah. I mean, that's what you do. Oh, listen, sorry, my son, he ain't got no use for you no more. But you know what does Greece, they got used for you. We need you here, kid. Get in the game. You're going to, you're going to go out to Santorini, you're going to find some fucking sexy young Greek guy to sweat all over you. And you're going to forget about my son in five minutes, more on that in a second. It sounds like she has. But yeah, here we, yeah, we're going to get to that. But you know, it, what it didn't do is it did not, what's the word I'm looking for? If it's a morning recording, it's a little slower, but it didn't lighten the blow. I mean, no, no, no, it did not, unstraighten her resolve to represent the long dick of the law. And by long dick of the law, I mean represent the Trump family around the world in ways that, you know, are kind of interesting. So from this report, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and this is Roman Tremetta on Twitter, given you the, the run down here. The U.S. ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, close Trump ally and former fiance of Donald Trump Jr. admitted that the United States helped bring down governments that stood in its way. This is the first time hearing about this. Well, I didn't know we did. I didn't know that either. I was completely unaware. And we would never do this. This is very anti-American. They're clean cut. Again, I appreciate her saying these things out loud because, you know, it's just revealing the things in the shadows. We already knew we're true. Anyway, during a private dinner in Athens, which apparently wasn't that private, while discussing the collapse of Romania's government, Guilfoyle said, quote, we can do this to any country we want. We can do it here, too. Better watch your fucking frappe there, Stavros. The Greek energy minister pushback saying the United States cannot simply replace a government elected by the people, like, fuck, we can't. Guilfoyle insisted that they have already done this in Romania on March 31st. And by the way, I believe the Wall Street Journal got a video of this actual meeting later, like you can see it happening. On March 31st, Guilfoyle met privately in Bucharest with senior Romanian social democratic officials. The discussion included the vertical gas corridor and energy cooperation. It's always about the natural resources, Joey, baby. weeks later, the social Democrats joined the pro-Russian AUR party in a no-confidence vote that brought down Prime Minister Ili Bologian's government. Bologian had resisted a proposed arrangement involving expensive U.S. gas resources. If you don't pay, you don't play. Weeks later, or so, according to GoFoyle Trump administration, engineered the collapse of Romania's government in a clear extortionist attempt, and to do so, they have collaborated with a far-left party, the Communist, as MAGA calls them. Yeah, so, you know, whatever useful idea they can find to get their means across because again, it's coming back to the economic agenda. Maybe they're freaking out, so because, by the way, this is March 31st, so it's after the Rommeworth breaks out. They're freaking out so much about gas prices and the damage they're going to be doing while they were still telling the people the war's going to be over in four weeks back then. I remind you. March 31st was like, I think that was the day before Trump gave his speech, where he's like, "I want to give you an update. I don't want to do it." And we're like, "Wow, okay, this is definitely not that we didn't already think that." It's like two weeks to fly in the curve, type, shit. 100%. So they were already planning ahead because they're focused on energy alternatives in ways that they can help cushion the blow of their poor foreign policy decisions, but it's the way that this bitch is running around saying that, that I'm under no illusion that American officials forever have talked like this to foreign countries, saying, "Listen here, buddy, you think you're in the five families, you're not even, you're not even a fucking soldier at the bottom of a shitty regime in Tampa, right? Like I have no doubt that they have talked like this forever, but the lack of discretion she's using to do it, and the symbolism of her also being the former Fox News lady who was fucking the president's son and is now running around, galloping across Greece, and apparently working on Eastern European energy deals. Again, what's this time number 12 today, Joey Deef? Poor optics. Yeah. Poor optics. Yeah. You know, no offense to you, Miss, but you're a nobody, all right? You're a nobody. You can't be going to the dinners and talking like this unless like you're the fucking like, like you're a nobody in this grand scheme, and you're out there talking like this at the dinners. You got fucking nerve to it, so you wouldn't be in my family, I'll tell you that. That's right. That's right. She, she'd be moory. She's like, she's like, no, she's like the dude, well, I forgot the character's name, he was buying a bunch of shit, he buy, he gets his wife the code and good fellows, and he's just, that's right. No, he's like, what's your problem? What's your problem? Like, that's the type of shit she would be doing. I told you, do, take it back, take it back. Take it back. Take it back. Yeah, a lot of work done, Joey Deef. Yeah, well, I mean, like both docks is her friend for sure. Yeah. Well, I don't know if it's her friend, but it's definitely, little parasite, they definitely collaborate. They definitely collaborate. For good or bad. You'd be the judge. Look at that bar next to that, though, we can do this to any country we want. We can do it here too. Thanks for letting us know. I appreciate it. But Joey Deef, I did say that it appears to maybe young Kimberly has found her squeeze. You see this from the WS Shack. We're going to read the story. This is actually very, very well written and entertaining. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. The man shadowing Kimberly Gilfoyle as she pushes deals across Europe. Christos Marafazos works as an energy lobbyist, while also closely advising the US ambassador to the Greece. What are the chances that Joey Deef, an energy advisor in Greece, she's spending a lot of time with while she's over there, and she's meeting with the Romanians about colluding against their current government, she's meeting with the leftist remaining about colluding against their current government about what, over what energy. All right. Let's go downstairs. This is from Rebecca Bauhaus, Dana Mattyoli, Joe Parkinson, and Drew Hinshaw over at the WSJ. Kimberly Gilfoyle was a long way from Mar-a-Lago. The US ambassador to Greece, Donald Trump Jr.'s former fiance was shuttling back and forth to Bulgaria's capital on a mission this spring. The Trump administration wanted allies on Europe's eastern edge to buy billions of dollars of American natural gas. If they're going to buy natural gas, Joey Deef, I want to buy an American buy it ours. There was just one thing. The Bulgarian government, she told people, should deal with a Greek construction firm called Actor Group, a newcomer to the gas business that had teamed up with the Greek state-backed energy company to bring in liquefied natural gas from the US. There's no doubt that this is kind of an official-posit kind. There is no doubt that this is kind of an official position of the US government, instead of person familiar with the talks, sitting beside the 57-year-old ambassador in an audience with the Bulgarian president was a 39-year-old named Christos Marafazos. He has attended so many of her meetings that some foreign officials mistook him for her chief of staff. In fact, he has a top lobbyist for Actor. What are the chances of that, Joey Deef? She's pushing this company while the dude next door, who she's probably fucking, pierced back, pierced back. I don't know. I haven't seen any tape yet. I'd make the bet. But I'd make the bet, right? He just so happens to be lobbying for that energy company while they're trying to make these energy deals. Yeah. Classic business. Classic business. Classic business. Classic business. Classic business. So he's a top lobbyist for Actor, whose CEO had flown Gulf oil to the country on a private jet. Why isn't always the private jet? It's always somehow, these people are getting something over the other people by flying them in a private jet. It's like, it's like international waters, you know? That's right. There's always the complication. Joey Deef has never flown me in his private jet. I just won't put that on the record. No. I haven't. He has not. I haven't gotten that yet. I wouldn't accept it. Yeah. If I got it. Yeah, you wouldn't. I know. You actually know me well. Those lines. Yeah. You'll wait. You'll wait. All right. A one time prosecutor who morphed into a mega icon, Gulf oil is parlaying her ambassador ship to Greece into one of the Trump administration's most important diplomatic roles. The former Fox News coast has crisscrossed the Balkans to help Europe wean itself from Russian energy via vertical grass gas corridor meant to receive US LNG in Greece and pipe it towards Ukraine and pipe in it. All right. He puzzled government officials across the region with her persistent promotion of a specific Greek company and her extensive efforts to involve Marafazzo's a neophyte in both diplomacy and energy. Listen, you got to learn somehow. You got everyone's got to start somewhere. So he's starting on energy deals in the middle of the war with Russian Ukraine. His prior experience includes co-founding a Washington DC area produce distributor that's on brand and working in businesses ranging from real estate consulting to creating the ultimate immersive experience of the Acropolis in IMAX 3D. So the IMAX Acropolis guy who's fucking carrying your produce to the streets at DC to get his green card is now lobbying right next to the ambassador to Greece with a bunch of other countries, which I haven't asked this question yet. But I don't know how normal this is for like the ambassador to Greece to be dealing with a bunch of other European nations in like a diplomatic role like that. Maybe that's very normal. I'm not familiar, but like this who she put on right here, the IMAX Acropolis guy. These days the Maryland raised Marafazzo's has frequently seen a gilfoil side acting as her unofficial gatekeeper and joining her for meetings at her ambassadorial residence and with government officials and countries around the region are highly unusual move for a private citizen. Several people who have met with Mr. Marafazzo's and the ambassador including government officials said he made no mention of his ties to act or yeah, we don't talk about that. Okay. You want to bring up act or we do that outside no phones, all right. At a conference earlier this month in Thessalonica, Greece where officials from nine countries gathered to discuss their products progress on the vertical corridor, a Wall Street Journal reporter waiting outside watched Marafazzo's and gilfoil arrive in the back of a black BMW at the head of the U.S. com for Marafazzo's entered the city's met hotel through a separate entrance away from photographers, what you got to do Joey, if you need a screen, you go through the back door so you can go upstairs and fuck, right? Yep. Yeah. So I mean, I'm just saying Pierce Beck, it's kind of what it looks like, but again, they're not hiding these kinds of things, they're not even taking the precautions of checking to see if there's people videoing on camera outside the restaurant while they're doing this stuff. They're doing it in the open. They're doing it out in the open, and there's a part of you that has to appreciate that. And all the while, you know, you have, you've had Trump like kicking out the news networks and then to the credit of all the other news networks as well, like including Fox News, when that happened after he banned CNN and a few other places, they all took out their reporters as well and said, no, no, no, this is not going to fly because again, that's, that's, that's dictatorial regime type stuff. Even Biden, even fucking Biden made sure Peter Ducey from Fox News. was getting questions every time he was in there. Even Trump won back in the first administration where he'd rip into a cost all the time, but like he'd go back and fork with Jim Acosta from CNN. And now he's just like, you know what? Get him out, get him out. You can't have that. It's so bad. It's so bad. The Hillary Clinton has weighed in on this. You see this, Joey Dave? No. Hillary Clinton was appalled by this. It's in that link down below the paragraph. So she was appalled that Donald Trump would ever do this to the free press. If we can go down for one second, kicking out the free press is what fragile authoritarians do, not an American president. I agree with you, Hillary Clinton. Here's the problem. Can we go back to our first tweet you had, Joey Dave? This is from when Clinton was in charge of the state department, you know, working in the White House. Clinton's state department was getting pressure from President Obama and his White House to inner circle as well as heads of state internationally to try and cut off Julian Assange's delivery of the cables. And if that effort failed, then to forge a strategy to minimize the administration's public embarrassment over the contents of the cables, obviously referring to WikiLeaks. Hence Clinton's early morning November meeting of state's top brass who flooded various proposals to stop slow or spin the WikiLeaks contamination. That is when a frustrated Clinton source has said, at some point blurred it out a controversial query. Can't we just drum this guy? He could all be so slow. More all the story, everyone, birds at the same feather. They all do the same things. They all, you know, again, Trump's just being very blatant. Talking about it, saying, yeah, we're literally going to kick him out of the White House press pool, but this is what they do. What's Julian Assange is out of jail now, which is nice. He's having a kid, too. Yep. He posted about that. Do we have that? Yeah. Congratulations to Julian Assange and his girl, this new life is thanks to everyone who fought for my freedom. That's from Julian on Twitter. What a wild odyssey that guy went through. He can hold up in the Ecuadorian embassy for years, you know, basically walking down a few hallways and that's it. And then he gets arrested and they throw him in a hell hole for more years. And now he's still, like, is he free? Where is he right now? I have no idea. He's free, but I don't think I still think he can't come to the US, not that he's from here, but I'm pretty sure he couldn't just come here because there's like some pending charges. Which again, is wild. He's an Australia. Yeah, he's an Australia. It's wild that any member of the press would have like pending charges in America for doing their job, for reporting on things. Being a member of the press also includes leaking materials that you're given. Now, if those sources like technically broke a law or whatever, that's a different story. That's on the sources. That's not on the journalist to do that. The journalist is doing their job. And by the way, sometimes those sources, I think, are doing very much the right thing. We look at it. We're snowing and stuff like that. We've talked about that a million times, but like you can talk about someone breaking the law, then you can look at all the laws that were being broken and not adhered to and ask yourself which was worse. And I would argue what was being broken by the administration trampling upon people's constitutional rights was way worse. But the guy, Julian Assange, still technically, I guess, couldn't come here. Enjoy. You pulled this up. It is an interesting thought because it actually is almost this simple. Just from like a, how could America have somewhat won with Trump? So meaning half the country didn't vote for him, half the country voted for him, right? How could America have been in a position that even if half the country didn't vote for him and didn't like him and couldn't wait from the leave? They could at least look up and say, not everything is the worst thing ever. So this is from at being libertarian in an alternate timeline. Trump takes a licing, a liking to Thomas Massey, lobbies for him to replace Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. The Epstein criminals are in jail, BB is fending for himself, Doge is codified, the Department of Education doesn't exist, farmers are happy, and the GOP wins in 2026. Interesting list, certainly some things on there that people could across the spectrum get behind. Maybe a couple of things other people wouldn't as much, but like pretty good stuff. And these would be rooting out corruption. It would be holding to account justice, powerful people who have done the worst types of things. With Epstein and people around him, it would be taking care of by the way, the farmers that like Donald Trump relied on to help win the fucking election for him, who have been completely forgotten about in Washington DC forever and are the backbone, not just literally of our economy, they're the backbone of the food getting on our fucking table. And we wouldn't be entangled in foreign wars that were promises that he had made. That was the big thing. He's like, you get Kamala, you get Iran, and you get Trump, you get Iran. So it sounds like we were losing either what? You saw right through this deep. Yeah, because I'm like the Epstein criminals are in jail, then what the hell is he doing in the picture? What's he doing in the picture? Now, there's been a lot going on in AI that we got to talk about, and we'll be doing that over the next few episodes I imagine. So when I say that, maybe that means like three of the next six, it may not be directly in order. I gotta watch myself with that. But Edward Snowden, who we were talking about, I don't think this was on camera, but you and I were talking a month or two ago about how little we get to hear from him publicly now. You know, as opposed to like in 2019, 2021, you were hearing from him a lot, and you haven't heard from him as much. But he's been coming out seemingly of late and spit in some bars. So under that anthropic section, you see that first link. Yeah. So this is Edward Snowden calling for the arrest and imprisonment of Sam Altman. You may recall, so this is at Health Ranger writing this, so he's referring to himself. You may recall I called for the arrest of Dario Amade from Anthropic last week on Alex Jones' show. They both are admitting to conducting criminal cyber attacks, even bragging about it. Why are they walking free? So let's run this from Edward Snowden and see what he said here pretty blatantly about Sam Altman. Who owns the liability there? And of course, naturally, they would see the government owns the liability because you're never can successfully sue the governor for this, and they should eat it. But maybe that doesn't work anymore because maybe they are an agent of God. I don't know where we're ever going to see standard to sue on this, but we should. And people in this room, I think, are frankly going to be called on in the course of their careers, in the course of their studies, in the course of whatever you do, to contend with these kind of issues. Where are we going to draw a line? Because an algorithm cannot make mistakes in the way that we understand it as, you know, new make, because the errors in its outputs are not the computers. It's the slave to its instructions. The responsibility lies with this developer, its program, its creator, its architect, which is to say responsibility lies with a person. And we cannot find that. We cannot abrade that away, right? A gunmaker is not liable, it's true for the misuse of the gun. But if during the testing of their latest piece of artillery, they're mistakenly obliterate, you know, and nearby, village, it's not the cabinet that you go to jail. And, you know, just because you put out a press release, describing how surprised you were that your new model, you know, hacked the neighbor, or to, you know, how impressed you are by the destructive power of your mobile phone. And that doesn't release you from the liability of launching this good light itself, you state. And so there's a lot we can get into, but the idea that I want people to contend with is how we deal with this. And right now, these closed models are saying, AI safety, AI safety, safety, as I call it, where the idea is these things are so dangerous, oh gosh, they're so dangerous, but they're so dazzling, they're so important, they're so valuable, we can't get rid of them. But you know, oh, it's going to kill some people, but it's all right. You know, that just happens. Oh, it's going to hack some companies. Oops, you know, whatever. We'll invest in them. The idea here is who operates this? And this should apply to our devices more broadly around the world. Right now, you buy a cell phone from Apple, and before you're allowed to use it, you have to click OK to continue. And they go, well, you're assuming liability for that. You clicked OK to continue. 700 pages of stuff. So you're an Android phone, Samsung, so you're an Android phone. You click OK to continue. Now, that's all you, but that can't be possibly how it works, because you can't inspect the system. You can't understand how it's used, and particularly in the context of LLMs, where you're submitting queries to a model that they are running, where they are for your safety and everyone's safety. Intercepting the prompt and recomposing the prompt saying, we're doing applying safety rules and transformations to it. That's on you, but it's not. I can't even see what you did. I asked you a question. You gave me something back in return. And if it's an agentic AI where I'm putting this thing in a harness, the harness being just a little program that basically uses these large models to feed it instructions, that it can then provide to tools that are existing on your local system. So now your computer that is connected to the internet is being frankly remotely controlled by a model that's far away that you don't understand how it works. But you know, you hope it works pretty well. And frankly, they do work reasonably well. But every now and then in my hat, you know, some random company or whatever out there. Close to doing business. I think we need to put Sam Holtman in jail. There it is. And I think it'll be an instructive experience. There it is. All right, that's good right there, JD. Thank you guys for checking out this clip. If you haven't already subscribed, please subscribe and hit the like button on this video. It is a huge, huge help. 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